Slovakia - Demographics

Demographics

Main article: Demographics of Slovakia

Largest cities or towns of Slovakia Štatistický úrad Slovenskej republiky – 31 December 2011
	Rank	City name	Region	Pop.	Rank	City name	Region	Pop.
Bratislava Košice	1	Bratislava	Bratislava Region	413 192	11	Prievidza	Trenčín Region	48 866	Prešov Žilina
	2	Košice	Košice Region	240 688	12	Zvolen	Banská Bystrica Region	43 311
	3	Prešov	Prešov Region	91 638	13	Považská Bystrica	Trenčín Region	41 153
	4	Žilina	Žilina Region	81 515	14	Michalovce	Košice Region	39 940
	5	Banská Bystrica	Banská Bystrica Region	79 775	15	Nové Zámky	Nitra Region	39 585
	6	Nitra	Nitra Region	78 875	16	Spišská Nová Ves	Košice Region	37 948
	7	Trnava	Trnava Region	66 219	17	Humenné	Prešov Region	34 913
	8	Martin	Žilina Region	57 300	18	Levice	Nitra Region	34 649
	9	Trenčín	Trenčín Region	55 832	19	Komárno	Nitra Region	34 478
	10	Poprad	Prešov Region	52 791	20	Bardejov	Prešov Region	33 625

According to the 2011 census, the majority of the inhabitants of Slovakia are Slovaks (80.7%). Hungarians are the largest ethnic minority (8.5%). Other ethnic groups include Roma (2%), Czechs (0.6%), Rusyns (0.6%) and others or unspecified (7.6%). Unofficial estimates on the number of Roma population are much higher, around 9%. Before World War II, 135,000 Jews lived in Slovakia.

In 2007 Slovakia was estimated to have a total fertility rate of 1.33 (i.e., the average woman will have 1.33 children in her lifetime), which is significantly below the replacement level and is one of the lowest rates among EU countries.

The Slovaks endured the largest wave of emigration at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. In the 1990 U.S. census, 1.8 million people identified themselves as being of Slovak ancestry.